Claud Butler Urban 300

Advantages: Good quality components, well built.
Disadvantages: Rather heavy, front suspension.

...Not a bad bike at all, but it's failing is that it can't make up it's mind if it's one thing or the other. It's set up to be a light use MTB / rough towpath bike with semi-knobbly tyres, front suspension and a bouncy seatpost. As a MTB, it's too frail, as a city commuter it's too heavy and bouncy. It's ideal use would be taking the kids for Sunday rides around forestry trails. Using mine for a 10 mile hilly commute, mainly on cycle paths, I felt mine was let down by the front suspension and the poor Tioga tyres. I changed the tyres to semi-slicks which helped, and swapped the seat post to a solid one to which let me put the power down better. The front suspension still made the bike far heavier than it needed to be (36 lb including a rack) and the suspension saps your effort when pedalling hard. Along the flat this wan't too...

someoneonabike 11.07.2008 · Read review
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The Butler Did It!

Advantages: Delicious!
Disadvantages: Lack of nutritional information; expensive

...thought hot chocolate was meant to be made out from cocoa powder, it was nice having a hot chocolaty drink while watching TV or surfing the net so my fingers won't shake while typing! Anyway . . . I had butlers hot chocolate drink as a Christmas gift from my uncle who lives in Ireland and is married to a lovely Irish lady. It had arrived to me as a parcel with a Christmas card inscribed with one word only . . . ENJOY! It may sound lame but to be honest I was gutted to receive such a gift, I was expecting more! However, I had a look and I was surprised to learn that it was supposed to be drunk not eaten! I never heard of this brand and never knew that hot chocolate can come in pieces! The only hot chocolate I knew was the cocoa powder or chocolate powder! Subsequently I took the box and had a close look; I wanted to...

karimkha 07.01.2009 (08.01.2009) · Read review
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GT Aggressor XC2. What a Bike for the Money

Advantages: Strong Frame and Wheels, Tyres do not let go
Disadvantages: None really!!

...Bought this bike with my work cycle to work scheme. A great buy from Halfords. Excellent speck for the price and a very strong bike. I'm 18st 10 (253 ibs) and in my opinion this bike can handle this weight easily. Great colour Black with like a Pearlesent White, Very good speck components, Shimano Deore derauillers and Sram Truvatic Crank. Hydrolic Brakes and Discs. These will stop you instantly and do tare a little time to get used to or a flight over the bars could come along. These sqeak when covered in Muck and Water for the first few occasions, but when used this disapates. Wheels are Alex DP17 rims, Strong, Maxxis Ingnitor Tyres Grip like hell. Suntour XCR forks are ok for Cross Country riding, Not a great Jump fork, but hey Im no Jumper! (I think that if yoiu are lighter than me you could have some safe landings with these...

damo1401 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Butlers Hot Chocolate Drink

Advantages: Attractive packaging, attractive price point, simple to make.
Disadvantages: Not chocolatey enough!!

...Firstly, I would like to point out that although this product comes under the category of "Cocoa (Instant)", it is not cocoa - it is Hot Chocolate! That means that it is a drink made with "real" chocolate, not with cocoa powder. I have mixed feelings about Butlers chocolates in general - I have tasted many of their products, and I love some of them, and am not so keen on others. So, it was with interest that I tried this new product. It has only just become available here in Ireland, I am not sure you can buy it in the UK as yet. First things first - the box itself is very attractive. It is a rich chocolatey brown colour with the Butlers logo in gold, and a photo of a pair of hands holding a teacup with a delicious looking chocolate drink in the cup, and a piece of the chocolate that you find inside dropping into the drink...

NickleIckle 06.11.2008 · Read review
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Richard Butler - Richard Butler

Advantages: mature, inventive, beautiful and emotional
Disadvantages: really can't think of any!

...Richard Butler is best known as the charismatic rasping voiced singer in the Psychedelic Furs. After 25 years fronting the band this is his first solo album, and those expecting simply inferior Furs tracks are in for a wonderful surprise. All the songs are co-written with Jon Carin (often a member of Pink Floyd over the past 20 years or so) and all, without exception, are beautifully constructed, grown up, mature songs. Smooth keyboards and rythmn tracks slightly disguise extremely clever songwriting and some devastatingly heartbreaking lyrics. Both men lost their fathers during the prolonged making of this album and a sense of personal loss and longing permeates the album. But there is also hope and light at the end of the tunnel and despite the occasional depressing lyric this is not a doomy album in any way. Every song leaves...

adams66 16.09.2008 · Read review
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Claud Butler Spectre MTB

Advantages: Frame, construction, value, you name it - it's got it..
Disadvantages: probably seems an oldie and unfashionable in these days of FS bikes.

...A quick intro here - the CB Spectre is a 7005 Aluminium rigid framed mountain bike, which is in fact manufactured by Falcon Cycles. The Spectre's 7005 Alu frame is described as a '7005 Tubeset', which usually refers to most of the main construction being of 7005 tubing, which is lightweight and is reputed to share most, if not all, of the strength and rigidty features of a good medium-quality steel frame, and hence is lighter than the steel, but not quite as light as more expensive aluminum alloy construction. In the case of the CB, it uses a frame geometry that gives a kind of strange look that resembles a cross between a trails bike (as in motorcyles) and a jump bike. Where this would almost certainly convince someone that it would be a poor fast-road or commuter bike, it sure suprises you :) It comes, as standard...

RoadWarrior 16.03.2001 · Read review
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A wheelie good toddler bike

Advantages: Small cheap, good quality
Disadvantages: no brakes

...A child’s first sized pushbike, with stabilisers, squeaky horn and clip on basket. Adjustable handlebars and seat, suitable for children from approximately 2 to 4 years. Manufactured by Universal and costing around £30 from large toyshops such as Toys”r”us. My 2 year old was desperate for her own “big girls bike” with two wheels and stabilisers. I looked at many, most of which were above £50, as I didn’t have as much as that to spend, I homed in on this jazzy little bike initially sold in Index. After realising that they were from the old stock and that they were not in the catalogue, the pleasant assistant offered to go out to the back of the store to see if there were any still lurking in the warehouse. Perfect, one left, and as it was old stock at an unmissable price of £22...

headgardener 10.07.2001 · Read review
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BUTLER BHO 3010 ELECTRIC CERAMIC HOB

Advantages: NONE
Disadvantages: VERY POOR AFTERSALES SUPPORT

...BUTLER BHO3010 PURCHASED 30TH JUNE 2006 I connected the hob to the mains and found that it did not heat up I wasnt aware that you had to connect up 3 links to make the unit work Somebody came and fixed it for £40.00 as it was not a warranty job The hob worked well up til March 2008 and then one of the touch circuit boards stopped working. I contacted the main contractor for repairs who said that I had to pay £69.99 call charge which was taken from my credit card there and then.An engineer called and said that a circuit board had gone down and it would cost £110.00 for the part. The repair was done and I was £180.00 out of pocket. I wrote to the Managing Director of Butlers at Maidstone but NEVER received any sort of reply. I sent them an email on yheir web site again with no reply. On boxing day 2008 the hob went again...

DENLARKING 02.01.2009 · Read review
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I'm Going Nuts For Butlers

Advantages: Delicious, handmade chocolate for the connoisseur
Disadvantages: A bit pricey and you have to hide it from the kids.

...***The Product*** Butlers' Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Bar is a chunky chocolate bar. Each bar weighs 75 grams and is individually made with a hazelnut praline centre. There are six chunks to each bar and inside each one, surrounded by the soft praline, is a delicious hazelnut. Praline is a mixture of powdered nuts and chocolate and the praline used in this confectionary is made to an old family recipe. What makes this product different and a little more expensive than other similar ones is that it is handmade to a recipe that has been used at the Butlers' factory, in Ireland, for many years. I have to admit that this is certainly a quality product and one that all serious chocoholics will want to try. . ***Availability*** The first challenge when it comes to reviewing this chocolate bar is actually being...

jan007 30.11.2008 · Read review
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I bought a GIANT bicycle!

Advantages: Price, Components, Performance
Disadvantages: Lack of "street-cred"

...When I was little, I got a TCR racing set for Christmas. In those heady days, TCR stood for "Total Control Racing". Something like a Scalectrix, but without the slots, so the cars could change lanes. In July of this year, I bought a new bike, a road-racing bike from the Chinese manufacturer "Giant". It too is called TCR, but this time round I've no idea what it stands for. What I do know is that, for the money, it's a fine piece of machinery and over the next virtual page or two, I'll tell you exactly why. Spurred back on to my bike, after more than 10 years of neglect, by a declining level of fitness and an expanding waist-line, I started riding again at the beginning of this year. For the first 6 months I rode my mountain bike on the roads of Essex in an attempt to get fit. My fitness did improve, but every weekend I would be...

LegendaryMrDude 19.11.2006 · Read review
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